Titanfall 2 i haven’t had exactly one hot girl summer. Since May, hackers have hit regularly Respawn Entertainment first-person shooter with direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks, which makes the game virtually unplayable. The situation reached fever yesterday, when viral social posts suggested that hackers could gain control of players ’computers. But Respawn, that recognized security issues, dit the problem overflowed.
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This hooplah happened as they always do these things: through a hard-to-use phone game. One message in particular, posted by Twitter user @WorkAsIntended, citing a Discord post from user DirecXeon, citing Titanfall 2 content creator Blueghost: exposed the crux of the issues:
Basically someone discovered the temporary file that Titanfall/ Source uses for game invitations have a size limit. If the username of the person who invited you exceeds the size limit, they will start overwriting other files to save the name. Once it comes out of this specific temporary file, however, the computer begins to treat it as an executable code instead of a username. And because it is directly on your computer, you can edit the other files on your computer.
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DirecXeon too pointed out that security issues seemed to affect all platforms. (Titanfall 2 is available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and is part of the Xbox Game Pass library.)
That spark a wave of posts on social media from players instant others to uninstall Titanfall 2 posthaste. But after investigating the problem, Respawn said this move was not necessary and that exploitation only occurs Titanfall 2 crash. Popular in tracking a deleted tweet since then Titanfall Titanfall4Ever fan account he said players who do not need to uninstall the game.
Titanfall 2 it’s not the only Respawn game that suffers pirate attacks. Earlier this summer, Apex Legends was hacked by Titanfall fans who believed that Respawn was not doing enough to support Titanfall 2. These hacks prevented players from entering matches, forced them to enter a “SaveTitanfall” playlist, and directed them to a website dedicated to raising awareness about Titanfall 2sorry. These hackers ostensibly succeeded in one thing: make developers work on a vacation. Later, the community discovered that everything was really a fake flag operation designed to secure Titanfallthe source code in the efforts to achieve Titanfall online, a free online cancellation game. It was a mess.
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Kotaku contacted EA, Titanfall 2‘s editor, to comment on this week’ s hacks, but did not receive immediate news again.